ROYERSFORD — Over the past couple of seasons, the Spring-Ford softball team was kind of like a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver who leads the most laps but fails to take the checkered flag.

The Rams had looked like championship material for a good chunk of the last two springs, but didn’t have any hardware to show for it.

Two years ago, Spring-Ford wound up being shut out in the Pioneer Athletic Conference championship by a Boyertown squad it had defeated in both regular season meetings.

Then last year, the top-seeded Rams were ousted by eventual champ Perkiomen Valley in the semifinal round.

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“It was really frustrating,” said senior pitcher Haleigh Williams. “We were putting in so much hard work into it, and it wasn’t panning out the way we wanted it to.”

Thursday afternoon at Ram Park, however, the postseason frustration of the past two years was washed away by a feeling of jubilation as Spring-Ford defeated Boyertown 2-0 for its first league title since 2010.

The second seed Rams (17-4) got it done thanks to a four-hitter from Williams, their mainstay in the circle.

They got it done thanks to a seven-hit attack led by Jess Nattle (2-for-3, one run), Cassie Alexy (2-for-3) and Bri Kofer (2-for-3) — the third of the Rams’ three final-year players.

And they got it done thanks to a renewed focus over the second half of this season — the line of demarcation being a 13-3 loss to Boyertown last month in which Spring-Ford committed a ghastly 11 errors.

“Probably the worst game I’ve ever coached an the worst game ever here,” is how veteran Rams coach Tim Hughes described that debacle.

Instead of imploding, though, Spring-Ford found a way to dig deeper and come together.

“We used that game as fuel to motivate us,” said Kofer. “I think this year we didn’t come in (to the playoffs) too cocky and overconfident.”

The Rams first had to get by a talented Methacton outfit, rallying from a two-run deficit midway through the contest to come away with a 5-2 semifinal victory Tuesday.

Against the fourth seed Bears (13-7), the Rams made sure there would be no repeat of the previous encounter.

Williams struck out six and retired the final seven batters to close it out.

“She does her job,” Hughes said. “She puts the ball where it needs to be. She’s going to get a strikeout now and then, but she knows they’re going to hit it, though not necessarily hard. She has confidence in the people behind her.”